Showing posts with label science magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science magazine. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Das Neue Blatt

Das Neue BlattPurchased this magazine as a Christmas gift for my mother last year. Never realized a German subscription would be available in the U.S.

German still being her first language she is thrilled. It is delivered right on time, every week, so she looks forward to it and it keeps her up to date on the European news.

Having had such a positive experience, I have reordered the magazine for another year. Ordering is easy, everything is explained, you can even print out a gift card. Absolutely worth it.

Great magazine for those who want to read the latest German news and gossip. Bought it for my German grandma. Only problem was the time lapse of the arrival dates. Many contests and rewards from the magazines crossword puzzles and such are difficult to enter. The entry date usually expires before the deadline. Still a good buy.

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living in New Jersey it is a plesure to receive this weekly german mag deliverd to my door. Thanks Amazon

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GREAT MAGAZINE MY WIFE CAN READ TO KEEP UP WITH THE GERMAN NEWS AND GOSSIP. THE COMPANY HAS A RELIABLE SERVICE CARRIER AND VERY FEW ERRORS.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Vermont Magazine

Vermont MagazineIn the recent past, I've subscribed to Vermont Life. Unfortunately, that magazine was full of more advertisements than Vermont Life. I thought this year, I'd give this publication a try. What a wonderful surprise! I've received my 1st issue and its full of interesting articles about my beloved state. I realize that some advertising is a must, but it was refreshing to read this magazine.

One of the things I like most about Vermont Magazine is its home-town feel and appearance. The articles are written by Vermonters or those who simply love it and want to share their experiences. One thing that continually frustrates me about current magazines is the proliferation of advertising, much of it inappropriate. The advertisements are tasteful and most of them showcase Vermont business. There are a few in the current issue that have international products, but are associated with a store or event. For example, one can win a Sony digital camera in the Vermont Magazine photo contest.

There is a regular "Features" section that features four to six different articles. In the July/August 2012 issue there is one entitled "Jumping Off the Shelves," an article about Vermont's independent bookstores. In the March/April issue the is one about "Fred's Cabin," a Woodswoman-like article about a "hillside cabin [that] was built entirely from scratch." The magazine has evolved into a lovely magazine replete with excellent quality, full-color photographs and wonderful articles. Unlike its competitor, Vermont Life, this one still has stories this household anticipates and loves to read.

DEPARTMENTS:

* Heritage

* Towns

* Farms

* General Stores

* People

* At Work

* History

* Made in Vermont

* Homes and Gardens Photo Essay

* Pictures from Vermont

* Homes and Gardens Porch Living

* Homes and Gardens

* Last Word

The "Departments" do vary from issue to issue, but the listing will give you an idea of what you will be looking at. This is definitely a magazine anyone who loves Vermont will enjoy. Very highly recommended!

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I got this subscription as a birthday gift for my 40-something nephew who is already preparing to retire in Vermont. I always knew he and his wonderful wife were smart kids !!!

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Fleur Creatif - English ed

Fleur Creatif - English edOrdered this magazine through Amazon in December. Shortly after got a email saying i would get my first subscription in Decemebr, but still havent received anything. Amazon working with me but blaming the subscritption house? WillI ever get a copy of my $70+ magazine?

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Parents (2-year)

ParentsI have a subscription to four different parenting and baby magazines: Parents, Parenting, Babytalk, and American Baby. This is my favorite. I seems to be the most informative and the topics are presented in Parents long before Parenting every gets around to it. For example, Parents had a indepth article on new discoveries in miscarriages and the following month parenting ran a similar article, but was not as informative and obviously was a steal from Parents. There are also great contest. There are also topics that parents can send in comments about and actually get paid for them if published. All I can say is that this is the only magazine I need and will not be renewing the others.

Parents magazine is a very good publication about raising kids to be happy, healthy adults. It offers some good advice about the task of parenthood, illustrating the hard work and rewards that go hand in hand if parents perform their role in the best possible manner.

I like this magazine as a whole, but there are a few things that potential readers need to know about before they pick up a copy to read. First of all, the articles in Parents magazine deal mostly with younger children, below twelve years of age. You won't find much of value in this magazine if you have teenagers. It is intended more for families with youngsters.

Another thing about this magazine that makes it less practical than it otherwise would be is the suggestions for family activities. The ideas presented here are all pretty good, but the problem is that the majority of them involve outlays of cash and/or time that are unrealistic for most families. I can agree, for example, that adding a game room would make a nice addition to one's house and would add tremendously to a family's time spent together. But how many among us can afford a home addition? Parents magazine talks about activities and enhancements like this in an unrealistic way, making them seem much simpler and easier to implement than they really are.

Aside from distractions like that, however, Parents is a very good magazine to read. It's one of the longest magazines you can buy, with 200 to 300 pages per issue. Add to that the low subscription price, a few pages of coupons, and the generally sound parental advice and you have all the makings of a good magazine for young families.

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This is primarily my wife's subscription, so this is mostly her input she has me read a couple features each month. There are so many things she finds useful about the magazine I can tell you she spends several hours reading each issue and regularly cuts out articles to save in our "parenting" file or to put on the fridge. Here are just a few of the great regular features of each monthly issue:

"As They Grow", pointers and insights related to a particular subject, one each for eight different age groups (from pregnancy to pre-teen years)

"can you help?", suggestions from readers about how to handle a common problem, such as the dentist or cutting your child's nails

Suggestions to keep your child busy in the house

An Emergency Guide pull-out for dealing with various situations like electrical shock, bee stings, etc.

Product recalls, usually with pictures

Product testing and reviews (similar to Consumer Reports)

Why not 5 stars? There are a couple annoying features in the magazine, such as "out of the mouths of babes" and some of the suggestions for children's activities around the house sound easier to do than they really are (sort of like what people say about Martha Stewart). It can also be a bit of a downer to read the stories about serious illnesses some children have had and how their families cope not always what you're in the mood for when you're thinking about your own healthy child. But overall, this magazine is the best one out there for parents AND they are branching out we recently started receiving Baby Parents. It's tough to know everything about raising your child so outside sources of information are key. Parents magazine is a great resource that has been well worth the small subscription price.

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I subscribed to this after my daughter was around 1 year and, being a stay at home mom, thought I might be able to sneak in a magazine article here and there. What better magazine to subscribe to than one focused on the raising of my darling baby girl? What a mistake! There are 2 types of material in this magazine; alarmist and inane. In fairness, there is occasionally a slightly interesting tidbit that doesn't cause me to immediately throw the thing down in disgust.

I don't fully fault the magazine for all of this as I've noticed that all periodicals seem to be catering to the lowest common denominator as of late. But honestly, the average article seems to assume that most parents are either complete morons or possibly 12 years old. Maybe it's because I'm 33 instead of 23, but I find the majority of the advice to be either extremely obvious or downright ridiculous. I do not need to be told to spend time with my child and I find it unhelpful to make parents think their child is Autistic because their one year old doesn't always look up from their toys when their name is called.

Then there's the household tips. In every issue, there seems to be tons of helpful tips to streamline the management of your home. These are the sort of silly "thirteen different ways to use a laundry basket" that some people may find interesting, but I do not. If I need a shelf, I install a shelf rather than hanging a laundry basket from some hooks. Honestly I feel like I've lost IQ points after reading this magazine. Sometimes I think it would have been more educational to watch The View and that would have been free.

I give the magazine 2 stars because there is occasionally something interesting in it. I have also seen worse. But if you are an actual adult, have some common sense and want to limit the ridiculous decor in your home to macaroni art created by your child, skip this magazine.

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I like this magazine mostly for the activities and the developmental articles. I agree with some of the other reviews that say that it's "age-biased," but you have to remember that when they publish a magazine, they are targeting a specific audience. 18-34 IS their target audience. If you don't fit in that range, then buy another magazine! I don't buy Cosmo girl because, duh, I'm not a teen-ager anymore. I think this magazine has fun ideas and helpful information about baby products (such as consumer reports and recall information on strollers, carseats, toys, etc). And contrary to other reviews, they DO feature children of all different races, they DO have articles on children who are physically/mentally challenged, and they DO have articles on the benefits of breastfeeding. I don't expect their material to cater to my exact lifestyle (I haven't seen an article about vegan babies yet and I'd like to see something about cloth diapering) but I think they do a good job of trying to include all different kinds of families and parenting styles.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Harpers Bazaar - England

Harpers Bazaar - Englandyou can see what will influence american fashion.find out what the europeans are doing.incentive to travel to London

and know what to do when you are there.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

National Post

National PostFor many years, I have vacationed in Canada, in Ontario's Ottawa Valley in particular. Because I am a news junky, I need to sit down to breakfast with my paper every morning. In years past, I would normally read the Toronto Star or the Globe & Mail (also from Toronto). As an avid reader of literature, I would delight in both those papers' high literacy -such an antidote to the dumbed down, eighth-grade English of American papers. As a political conservative, though, I would scratch my head a bit and think, "My, those Canadians sure are...different."

Enter the National Post, Canada's answer to our USA Today, but a far more literate read. I had honestly thought that conservatism had died out in Canada when former Tory Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's left office under a cloud of suspicion. Yet, when I visited Canada this June, I discovered this paper, which has a conservative slant, while dining at a Husky truck stop. I arrived the day before national elections, and the Post was boldly anticipating minority rule government and a return to centrist policies in its headlines.

So, I thought, scratching my head: "Hmmm."

When I returned to Canada in late August, the National Post was covering our own Republican convention in New York City. On balance, the coverage was quite fair, and the usual smug anti-American (or anti-Republican, at least) slant one normally sees in Canadian publications was gone. What a breath of fresh air in a country already blanketed by clean, fresh air!

The editorialists who covered the RNC covention did not uniformly support President Bush and his policies, but absent also from the pages of the Post were the bitterness, vitriol and haughty attitudes which characterize too many American newspaper editorials, not to mention those written outside our borders.

Particularly enjoyable are the writings of Tory editorialist Andrew Coyne, television critic Jason Chow and columinst Jonathan Kay, whose work also appears with some frequency in Commentary magazine.

Because many Americans are under the misimpression that Canadians are all knee-jerk liberals, I entreat them to read this fine publication. Erudite, witty and a bit brash, it also boasts a clean, modern layout and bold color photography.

Personally, the National Post is my favorite newspaper, along with Great Britain's Daily Telegraph and the Washington Times, New York Post and Wall Street Journal over here.

For those laboring under the stereotype that our neighbors to the north have nothing to say, I invite them to unfold this most pleasant surprise of a broadsheet.